William Camden Quotes
He that mischief hatcheth, mischief catcheth.
Citations
Camden, William. Remains Concerning Britain. John Russell Smith, 1870, p. 323.
Related Quotes
While the idea is not new with Cianci, the particularly colorful expression has yet to be rivaled.
See Robert Southey for the later version 400 years later which is more familiar to us.
William Camden was an English antiquarian, historian, topographer, and herald, best known as author of Britannia, the first chorographical survey of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Annales, the first detailed historical account of the reign of Elizabeth I of England.